I think my wife picked most of these, so they are obviously excellent selections.
Entrance: Anthem (Conroy)
Psalm: To You O God I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14)
Gifts: The Summons (Bell) AOV NG 149
Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
Come to the Water (Foley)
Recessional: Send Down the Fire (Haugen) AOV 2/164
We won’t be playing next Sunday after doing the last four weeks straight. For those of you who play every weekend you have my admiration, but unless you are a paid professional or aren’t working full time I just don’t see how you get it done.
Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen)
Psalm: O Blessed Are Those (Inwood) as refrain AOV 1/138
Gifts: I Have Loved You ( Joncas) AOV 1/126
Communion: One Bread One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129
We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81
Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) AOV 2/4
Having been caught up with other activities and neglecting to post, these are the songs we played yesterday.
Entrance: We Are Called (Haas) AOV2/60
Gifts: Prayer of St Francis (Temple) AOV2/126
Communion: One Body (O’Brien-Watts) AOV 2/146
Beatitudes (Ducotte-Balhoff) Glory & Praise 182
Recessional: Send Down the Fire (Haugen) AOV 2/164
The liturgy team for this week has selected this music. We are still using Paul Mason’s Mass of Glory and Praise.
Entrance: You Are Welcome (Leo Watt)
Psalm: Be With Me Lord (Haugen) as response
Gifts: St Theresa’s Prayer (Talbot)
Communion: Our Supper Invitation (Bates) AOV 1/185
A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien-Watts) AOV 1/158
Recessional: You Are The Voice (Haas) AOV 2/80
This is a big week for those young people being confirmed so the music is designed for this celebration:
Entrance: Hearts on Fire (Mangan)
Procession of the Word: Thy Word (Grant)
Psalm: The Lord is Kind and Merciful (Booth)
First Collection: Come to the Water (Foley)
Laying on of Hands: Veni Sancte Spiritus (Taize)
Holy Spirit Come (Mangan)
Something Wonderful (Kerr)
Confirmation: Holy Spirit of Fire (Mangan)
Flowing River (Baloche)
Come Holy Spirit (Angotti)
Come Holy Spirit (O’Brien-Ogilvie)
Prayers of the Faithful: Open My Eyes Lord (Manibusan)
Gifts: Blessed Be Our God (McKenna)
Communion: One Bread, One Body (Foley)
Our Supper Invitation (Bates)
Here I Am Lord (Schutte)
We Remember (Haugen)
Reflection: Go Make a Difference (Angrisano- Tomaszek)
Recessional: Inspired to Serve (Bailey)
Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen)
Psalm: Praise the Lord My Soul (Foley)
Gifts: Gift of Finest Wheat (Westendorf) GA 191
Communion: Great is Thy Faithfulness (Chisholm/Runyon) AOV 2/127
Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
Recessional: Inspired to Serve (Bailey) AOV NG 79
I noticed this song in the miscellaneous folder is “Trad.” This may not be correct as Wikipedia notes it to be written by Harry Dixon Loes. They are lots of versions on Youtube, but I’ll leave those interested to find them as none are that great.
My backing is a ProTools reboot of an ancient MIDI of mine.
This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine.
This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine.
This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine.
Ev’ry day, ev’ry day, ev’ry day, ev’ry day,
Gonna let my little light shine.
The team for this week has selected these songs. We are still using Mason’s Mass of Glory and Praise.
Entrance: Anthem (Conroy)
Psalm: Just to Be in Your Presence (Emmanuel Worship Ministry) as a response
Gospel Acclamation: Thy Word (Grant / Smith)
Gifts: Open My Eyes (Manibusan) AOV 1/166
Communion: As Gentle As Silence (White) Gather Australia 470
Our Supper Invitation (Bates) AOV 1/185
Recessional: You Are the Voice (Haas) AOV 2/80
A short update on what happens when you try to go legit and ask publishers about having their material on your blog:
Considering I was using other people songs without asking, the response I have been getting has been cordial, although I suspect I have exasperated some people a little.
Without going into the specifics not everyone has got back to me yet and haven’t contacted everyone, as I figured I’d work my way through the list. For some older songs copyright administration has passed through several players and you go around in circles even finding the right person to ask.
Some people have seen merit in the idea of publicising the music and helping learning and rehearsals, but were concerned about recordings used at Mass. So am I, but if it is done well it is better than nothing and musicians aren’t always available everywhere.
Some have said that they don’t want their music promoted in this way and that’s absolutely fine as it their choice.
Some are concerned that it is a threat to their livelihood, which I understand in an industry being flattened by copying, but flatters the backings I make rather too much. To that end I have replaced some backing with excerpts.
The lyrics are interesting in that while I have typed some of them up, the vast majority are available on the net with very little looking on the usual dodgy lyric sites as well as many on-line church bulletins. I’m not sure the lyrics without sheet music are much use to a church and I doubt my backings change that. If someone can make sheet music out of an MP3 they either have plenty of time or are talented enough to work up a fake sheet anyway. It’s cheaper to buy the music really than spend the time.
To be fair some publishing houses wouldn’t allow the lyrics, but were fine with the MP3’s if I could track the downloads and pay the fees. I’ve only just figured out how to do that, so I suppose if someone like LicenSing would give me a licence to print the lyrics I could look at putting some of the backings up and paying the royalty.
One body suggested a donation as an alternative, which makes sense as I doubt they’ll get rich from downloads of my backings.
Some of the big players have not got back to me, which is fine because it took ages to remove the lyrics for those have responded with that request. I’m also going through putting proper copyright information on posts in the off chance that they will be OK.
In the mean time it has prompted me to look at some of my own music and to look at other sources of church music. I’ll try not to bore you with further posts of this nature.
cheers
Geoff
Funny things happen when you tilt at windmills. Having made the ludicrous decision to get the permissions I should have asked for in the first place to use other people music, I seem to have given myself months of tidying up to do.
But I’ve also been pointed to some other resources on the net by the people I’m corresponding with. The secretary of the Monks of Weston Priory didn’t tell me to take everything down, which was sweet of him and he also mentioned their new album, “We Desire You” and thought I might like it.
You can buy the physical CD for $15 and download the sheet music for free here. You can also hear samples at the site but to get the full effect of all the interludes just buy the album. I downloaded the album for $10 from CD Baby (links at their site). It is simple, charming and reflective with the voice accompanied by guitar and flute.
Like a lot of folk styled tunes, you look at the chord progression and it is the same sort of thing as rock music and praise and worship music. While I like the reflective guitar sound they use, the songs also would stand up in other contexts. “We Desire You” is a setting of Ps 63 that sounds P&W to me, but the rest of the album probably wouldn’t work in that style.
Refrain
We desire You, O You who desire us.
Come with the gift of Your love.
1. God our God, we long for You,
For life, for bread, and for truth.
Even our bodies ache for Your touch.
Come with the gift of Your love.
2. We would gaze on Your holy place,
To behold You in power and might!
Yet You are the Gift who wanders with us,
Your love the Fire in the night.
3. Your love is richer than life itself,
Our longing You touch with Your peace.
Our lips will sing a song of praise.
Our hearts still search for Your face.
4. Your mem’ry, O God, fills each night;
You come like the wings of the dawn.
We trust in You with all we are;
Your desire holds us fast.
5. Blessed are You, O outpouring Love,
Through Jesus Your desire made flesh,
In Your Spirit, the Water of Life,
Our God forever more.
© The Benedictine Foundation of the State of Vermont, Weston Priory, Weston, VT, 2011.
